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A Plaque on the Site of Castle Dracula

Dracula scholar Hans de Roos discovered in early 2012, in Bram Stoker’s personal notes for the writing of DRACULA, the coordinates of latitude and longitude that Stoker listed as his intended site for the fictitious Castle Dracula. Or to be more precise, he deciphered the coordinates, using the novel and the current geography (as well…

Revisiting the “Classics”: ZOMBIE SHARK

A couple of things I want to note upfront: One. They should have called this one ZOMBIE SHARKS, as in, sharks, plural, since there’s more than one poorly-rendered-by-cheap-CGI zombie shark in the movie. Two. Shark Head was by far my favorite character. By FAR. You have to watch the movie to see Shark Head. But…

The Vampire Batman Funko

This is the version of Batman from the RED RAIN graphic novel series, although I’m glad to report that it doesn’t look all that much (or at all) like the way Batman is drawn in those comics. (Sorry, I’m just not a fan of Kelly Jones’ overexaggerated artwork.) It does, however, look even better than…

Movie Review: IT – Chapter Two

What I predicted would happen did happen for me where this movie was concerned. I enjoyed it more than I did its predecessor. Whereas with the first installment of IT I couldn’t help but draw comparisons—though I tried so hard not to—with the TV miniseries, and found the movie to be superior in some ways…

Movie Review: READY OR NOT

There is a supernatural component to this nifty little thriller that wasn’t evident from watching the trailers. If you saw the latter, you saw that a newlywed bride is being hunted by her new in-laws, who are trying—unsuccessfully—to kill her. That alone is a sufficient setup to let you know this is a film worth…

A TRIP TO WEREWOLF COUNTRY: The House on the Rock

Just up the road from architect extraordinaire Frank Lloyd Wright’s estate Taliesin sits an architectural marvel that dwarfs it, in more ways than one, the creation of a man whose genius eclipses Wright’s in every respect. Alex Jordan wanted to build a house on top of a rocky outcrop in rural Wisconsin, and he did….

A TRIP TO WEREWOLF COUNTRY: Vampires at Ripley’s

I just got back home from an excursion to Wisconsin, where I attempted to track down the legendary Beast of Bray Road. (Read all about my exploits in the land of cheese and werewolves over at out sister site werewolves.com!) While in Wisconsin I stayed at a charming little motel called the Indian Trails Inn,…

Stony Shrouds

This is just amazing to me. I saw a photograph on a friend’s social media profile. I had to look it up, as I suspected it was photoshopped. It wasn’t. It’s a real thing. THE VEILED VIRGIN is a sculpture created by Giovanni Strazza, on display at Presentation Convent in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador,…

Revisiting the Classics: MAD LOVE

Of all those great old black-and-white Horror movies of yesteryear, this one isn’t as well know. That’s a shame, because it’s as good as many and better than some of them. It lacks a Dracula, or a Frankenstein, or a Wolfman or Mummy to make it stand out, but it does have a mad scientist….

FANTASMAGORIANA Extra: “The Storm” by Sarah Brown Utterson

Sarah Utterson translated FANTASMAGORIANA from French into English the year after it was published in the former language, nixing several of the stories from the original anthology and substituting one of her own. You can buy a copy of FANTASMAGORIANA with ease, but I haven’t been able to find an extant version of Ms. Utterson’s…

A Fleet of Ghost Ships

I find the image of the “ghost ship” an irresistible one, whichever type of ghost ship we’re talking about, either the literal or the figurative. The literal is an actual ghost, where the craft itself is something spiritual or phantasmagorical in nature, and may or may not be crewed by ghost sailors. The ship in…

In Praise of Eddie

I have to confess that I was never a big mark for IRON MAIDEN. I dig “The Flight of Icarus” but I’m not all that familiar with their music. I know about them primarily because they were at the head of the class during the 1980s “Satanic Panic.” Most of the Heavy Metal “Hair bands”…